2012年9月24日星期一

Ottok: Find Beauty in Incomplete Things

When immersed into something really fond
of, we are always easy to forget tiredness and unhappiness. That’s more than a
hobby. We love what we do and one day if we develop it to become our lifelong
profession which may be the best thing ever. And as to me, I like handwork and
photography most. But neither of them has been developed into my vocation. Therefore,
I will always admire those people who can work for his heart and enthusiasm. But
who can say amateurs are not high on the list?

And today, I’d like to introduce an amateurish
photographer, Ottok, whose works have nothing with amateur. When asked for the
reason why photography, he just responded, “ I photograph because I have a
passion for it. It’s that simple.”

“I have struggled in the past to find the
right words to describe what drives much of my art. And then I read an article
on the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi: finding magic in the ordinary…in the
flawed. As Leonard Loren said: “Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things
imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things
unconventional.” Wabi-sabi is what I seek when I explore an abandoned factory
or walk the streets of a city or find a deserted house in a field.”